Half-Built Britain: Unlocking the Nation’s Infrastructure Growth Plans

Graham is the Global Infrastructure and Construction Lead at Oxford Economics.

He is also the Global Business Consultant at Pinsent Masons LLP - the world's top-ranked firm of lawyers for construction. He has 35 years of experience in the infrastructure and construction sector.

He is one of the world's leading global construction economists, according to Engineering News Record (ENR) in the US. He leads consultancy assignments and is an author of Global Construction 2030 and many other industry reports and writes regularly for journals and other media.

Graham was previously a Partner and Head of Management Consulting for one of the largest global management and construction consultants and he was Commercial Director of the renowned Centre for Strategic Studies in Construction as a part of the School of Construction Management and Engineering at the University of Reading - a recognised global centre of excellence in construction strategy.

Jeremy Leonard is responsible for overseeing the work of the industry forecasting team and managing the operation and output of Oxford Economics’ Global Industry Model as well as related consultancy work.

Jeremy’s knowledge and past experience span a broad range, including competitiveness and offshoring/reshoring, commodity price modelling, and applied economic research on sectors ranging from biotech to heavy manufacturing to telecoms. In addition to numerous recurring bespoke sales and output forecasts for industries as diverse as machine tools and consumer packaging, recent consulting assignments have included the drivers of competitiveness in the chemical sector, forward-looking analyses of high-growth sectors across a range of emerging economies, and the ways in which digital technologies are transforming economic activity across manufacturing and service sectors.

Prior to joining Oxford Economics, Jeremy ran his own consulting firm based in Montreal, Canada providing a variety of economic analysis and forecasting services related to commodity prices, competitiveness, and the Canadian and US economic outlooks for the Washington, DC-based Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation, as well as serving as economic research director for the Montreal-based Institute for Research on Public Policy.

Born and raised in Washington, DC, Jeremy was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and McGill University, where he received his MA in Economics summa cum laude. He also speaks fluent French.

Emily is a Senior Economist on the Industry team where she supports bespoke industry projects in areas such as renewable energy, construction and insurance. She is also involved in other projects like economic impact studies.

Prior to joining Oxford Economics, Emily worked for 5 years as a government economist for the UK Civil Service, working in the Department for International Trade (DIT) and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). In DIT she worked on assessing the socio-economic impact of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and Freeports. She also worked in a crisis covid-19 analytical team, providing supply chain analysis and reporting of critical goods to ministers. In BEIS, she used economic analysis to develop policy positions for manufactured goods for both Free Trade Agreements, the Northern Ireland Protocol and the UK's Global Tariff Schedule. Emily holds a Bsc in Economics from the University of St Andrews.

Clarissa is an Economist on the Industry team at Oxford Economics, specializing in tailored economic analysis, including industry outlooks, customized models, strategic assessments, and economic impact studies. Before joining Oxford Economics, she worked as an economic researcher at the European Investment Bank and the United Nations. She holds an MA in Economics from the University of Cambridge.